The Daemon of Burton or A true relation of strange witchcrafts or incantations lately practised at Barton in the Parish of Weobley in Herefordshire. Certified in a letter from a person of credit in Hereford.
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Ghosts and their doings. For the last two or three weeks considerable excitement has prevailed in and around Wormleighton in consequence of a very generally-received rumour that Mr Thursby’s house in that village was haunted,
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A French Ghost. There is a ghost in Calais, or rank sorcery, or wicked powers of some sort working. In that town dwells a certain Topham, who keeps a factory. In front of the factory
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Narrative of a Trial for Witchcraft, from some family papers. In the year of our Lord 1679, I, being one of his majesty’s justices of the peace, was present at the assizes, held according to
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Extraordinary Ghost. A respectable lady, named Jervis, residing in Regent’s-street, Poplar, applied to Mr Bennett, the sitting Magistrate, on Thursday last, for advice how to act under the following ludicrous circumstances: She stated, that she
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